Lin Signs Summer League Contract with Dallas Mavericks

Jul 06, 2010

Photo courtesy of Chris Wraight.

DALLAS -- Three-time All-Ivy League selection
Jeremy Lin '10 has signed a contract to play for the Dallas
Mavericks Summer League team. Lin, who is one of 11 players
on the roster, will join the team from July
9-18 at the COX Pavilion and the Thomas & Mack Center on the
campus of UNLV.

Dallas will play Denver Friday, July 9 at 4 p.m., before facing
Houston Saturday, July 10 at 10 p.m. A full schedule of the Dallas summer league
games is available and all games will be shown live on NBATV.

Lin, a guard from Palo Alto, Calif., was a finalist for the Bob
Cousy Award, which goes to the nation’s top point guard as
well as the John R. Wooden Award for the national player of the
year, in 2009-10. A four-time Ivy League Player of the Week
honoree, Lin led the Crimson in scoring as a senior with 16.4
points per game. He also led team with 4.6 assists per
contest and paced the Ancient Eight with 71 steals, marking the
third straight year he topped the Ivy League in steals.
Harvard also enjoyed the program's winningest season in 2009-10, as
the team recorded 21 victories and qualified for the postseason for
the first time since 1946.

A USBWA and NABC all-district team honoree, Lin completed his
Harvard career as the only player in Ivy League history to record
1,450 points (1,482), 450 rebounds (494), 400 assists (406) and 200
steals (225). Lin helped rewrite the Harvard record books, as
he finished his career first in all-time games played (115) and was
second in steals and fifth in points and assists.

Lin is the second former Harvard player to have signed a contract
with the NBA Summer League, as Brian Cusworth '07 is a member of
the New Orleans Hornets summer roster.